This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: US News
Jul 7, 2019
In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.
Source: NPR
Jul 4, 2019
Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jul 3, 2019
The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.
Source: China Rising Radio Sinoland
Jul 2, 2019
An examination of Douglas Valetine's The CIA As Organized Crime.
Source: Black Perspectives
Jul 1, 2019
by J. T. Roane
The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of Black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jun 30, 2019
Today’s overheated politics make prudent statesmanship seem hopelessly distant, but our future may depend on it—yet again.
Source: Time
Jun 30, 2019
While the nearly 250 years since 1776 have been chock full of major milestones, not every moment that shaped the country gets the credit it deserves.
Source: Intelligencer
Jun 30, 2019
Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.
Source: KUOW
Jun 28, 2019
When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 28, 2019
While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.
Source: Black Perspectives
Jun 27, 2019
by Adriana Chira
With chapters covering a broad geographic expanse (including the North and South Atlantic), the volume shows how Afro-descendants across the Western Hemisphere engaged with new liberal ideologies of inclusion while countering elite efforts to restrict the political openings created by these ideologies.
Source: New Yorker
Jun 26, 2019
by Caleb Crain
Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.
Source: The Bulwark Podcast
Jun 25, 2019
Princeton professor and famed #Twitterstorian Kevin M. Kruse discuss revisionist history on the right and many more issues in politics.
Source: New York Times
Jun 24, 2019
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
Source: Daily Mail
Jun 23, 2019
In 2023, it will be brought together in a single-volume book, Britain: The Thread of History 1603-2016, published by Bantam Press.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 22, 2019
Director hits back at critics who say the institution, backed by Poland’s populist party, will distort wartime history
Source: Art News
Jun 22, 2019
Peter Selz, whose enterprising curatorial vision helped shape the Berkeley Art Museum in California and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the mid-20th century, died on Friday, according to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.
Source: Midas
Jun 20, 2019
Reckonings is an affecting study of the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the extent to which Nazi persecutors were brought to account, and how myths of justice being done developed in the years following the Second World War.
Source: Big Brains Podcast
Jun 20, 2019
One of the leading scholars on the American presidency gives us insight into the Trump era, the history of impeachment, and the power of the office.
Source: Black Perspectives
Jun 19, 2019
by Joshua Clark Davis
Read about the only African American historian to recieve a Presidential Medal of Honor.
